Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator
Authors and Contributors      Volume editor Harold Tarrant
Volume editor Marguerite Johnson
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:272
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreWestern philosophy - Ancient to c 500
ISBN/Barcode 9781472504463
ClassificationsDewey:183.2
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date 7 November 2013
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

In the Platonic work Alcibiades I, a divinely guided Socrates adopts the guise of a lover in order to divert Alcibiades from an unthinking political career. The contributors to this carefully focussed volume cover aspects of the background to the work; its arguments and the philosophical issues it raises; its relationship to other Platonic texts, and its subsequent history up to the time of the Neoplatonists. Despite its ancient prominence, the authorship of Alcibiades I is still unsettled; the essays and two appendices, one historical and one stylometric, come together to suggest answers to this tantalising question.

Author Biography

Marguerite Johnson is Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Newcastle, Australia. Harold Tarrant is Professor of Classics, University of Newcastle, Australia.